Cleistocactus parviflorus
| Cleistocactus parviflorus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Genus: | Cleistocactus |
| Species: | C. parviflorus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cleistocactus parviflorus (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss. 1904
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Cleistocactus parviflorus is a species of columnar cacti in the genus Cleistocactus.
Description[edit]
Cleistocactus parviflorus grows as a shrub with upright, green shoots that are slightly branched at the base and reaches heights of up to 3 meters with diameters of up to 4 centimeters. There are 12 to 15 clearly notched ribs. The different colored thorns are brown to yellowish to greenish. The 1 to 3 central spines are up to 2.5 centimeters long, the 5 to 9 marginal spines are up to 4 millimeters long.
The straight, red flowers are 3 to 5 centimeters long. The yellow fruits are up to 1 centimeter in diameter.[2]
Distribution[edit]
Cleistocactus parviflorus is widespread in the Bolivian departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba at altitudes of 1400 to 3000 meters.
Taxonomy[edit]
The first description as Cereus parviflorus was made in 1897 by Karl Moritz Schumann.[3] The specific epithet 'parviflorus' is derived from the Latin words parvus for 'small' and -florus for '-flowered'. Robert Roland-Gosselin placed the species in the genus Cleistocactus in 1904. A nomenclature synonym is Echinopsis parviflora (K.Schum.) Anceschi & Magli (2013).
References[edit]
- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ^ Anderson, Edward F.; Eggli, Urs (2005). Das grosse Kakteen-Lexikon (in German). Stuttgart (Hohenheim): Ulmer. p. 123. ISBN 3-8001-4573-1.
- ^ Weber, Frédéric-Albert-Constantin (1904). Les Cleistocactus. Nice: Impr. Ventre. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.156757.
External links[edit]
Media related to Cleistocactus parviflorus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Cleistocactus parviflorus at Wikispecies
